Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Roth, Christopher; Schesch, … - 2024
When people exchange ideas, both truths and falsehoods can proliferate. We study the role of explanations for the … their answers, providing over 6,900 unique verbal explanations in total. A separate group of participants either only … explanations strongly improves aggregate accuracy. This effect is asymmetric: explanations enable the spread of truths, but do not …